Improvement in platform-gears for wagons



V B. I. RIX. Platform-Gear for Wagons.

,79'9. Patentgq Dec. 4,1877.

WITNESSES PETERS, umo-umocm nsn. wAsm Gw D UM-TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN F. RIX, or, MASON, MICHIGAN.

IMPRO VEMENT IN PLATFORM-GEARS FOR WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,799, dated December 4, 1877; application filed October 16, 1877.

I spring wagons, that is of lighter proportions,

cheaper, and more durable than the gears hitherto usedfbeing strengthened in such a manner that there is no possibility of its breaking or sagging down and'causing the fifthwheel or circle to bind. The invention consists of a wagon-gear, being made of a solid center piece, or of two pieces bolted together, and bent forward and back to the spring-block. The side and center pieces are strengthened by longitudinal and transverse trusses.

In the drawing, A represents a gear for platform and spring wagons, which is either bent of one solid piece, that is divided in the center and returned to the spring-block B, as shown in Fig. 1, or made of two pieces, which are bolted together in the center, the whole gear containing thus, respectively, only two or three pieces, including the spring-block.

The side-pieces of the gear that connect the .bent front portion with the springblock B are consisting of a longitudinal center bar and diverging side arms or pieces, extending forward and backward to the spring-bar, and formed in one piece with the center bar, substantially as herein set forth, for the purpose specified.

2. A gear for platform and spring wagons, consisting of a center piece and diverging side pieces, formed in one piece with said center piece, and having the side and center pieces strengthened by longitudinal and transverse trusses, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RIX.

Witnesses CHARLES RIX, S. A. WELLING. 

